Last week saw the release of FFmpeg 4.0 – it’s been 7 months after a major 3.4 release. Most useful improvements, I think, are the following: H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 decoders – all using hardware acceleration NVIDIA NVDEC AV1 codec is now suppoted using libaom AMD AMF powered encoders for H.264 and HEVC […]

KDE just released the latest set of improvements to its desktop environment, Plasma. KDE Plasma 5.9.0 is a release targeted at further improving productivity of a power user. Perhaps one of the most awaited features of this release is the return of the Global Menus – you can once again show application menus either at […]